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Centers of convex subsets of buildings (English)
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24 November 2005
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The main result of this paper asserts that, if a subset of a spherical building is convex and has dimension at most 2, then it is either a building itself or has a center (a fixed point for the isometry group). The proof is based on the geometry of CAT(1) spaces. In particular, some observations about general CAT(1) spaces of independent interest are proved. For instance, every finite dimensional CAT(1) space of radius at most \(\pi/2\) has a circumcenter which is fixed by every isometry of \(X\).
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isometry groups
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fixed points
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CAT(1)-spaces
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buildings
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